Outstanding News in Picture: 8 August 2011

Sixty-one-year-old US swimmer Diana Nyad has amazingly started her challenge of swimming between Havana, Cuba and Florida which is almost 103 miles in total in a period of three days. Diana Nyad begins the adventure with a team of 40 people who will assist her in the 60-hour journey. From Cuba to Florida, she will swim continuously without touching a boat or land. Each hour and a half she will stop for water an electrolyte drink and a banana with peanut butter. The swimmer expects to set record for the longest ocean swim at 163 kilometres.